When I try to describe great teaching, I notice a certain phrase pops out of my mouth again and again. Productively stuck. As in, the goal of the teacher is to [...]
I’ve had Conrad Wolfram on my mind for some time. He gave a TED talk on computer-based math a while back, and just gave an updated talk at Learning Without [...]
When I was in high school, I went through an experimental phase of essay writing. The standard essay form was too dry, too monotonous to express everything [...]
A parent recently asked me a great question: what books (and games) would be useful for home use? There are lots of resources around, such as living math, or [...]
I was talking to my brother about math and teaching the other day, and he mentioned the Karate Kid (the original). It’s a classic story of learning. And in [...]
One of the remarkable things about learning math is that steps forward in understanding require a kind of forgetting. Everything always looks simple in [...]
